{"id":21327,"date":"2021-09-29T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=21327"},"modified":"2021-09-29T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T15:36:50","slug":"basha-to-meet-head-of-the-osce-odihr-observation-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/basha-to-meet-head-of-the-osce-odihr-observation-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Basha meets Urszula Gacek: DP, determined to pursue electoral reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Democratic Party Lulzim Basha met the head of the OSCE\/ODIHR observation mission, Urszula Gacek.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference held after the meeting, Basha said to have discussed with Gacek over the primary recommendations of the OSCE\/ODIHR report, which according to him, \u2018proves the electoral massacre\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Lulzim Basha also declared that the Democratic Party is determined to have an electoral reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We have a team led by Enkeled Alibeaj and very soon we\u2019ll send a request to the Assembly for the establishment of a group tasked to work on the electoral reform\u2019, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the opposition drew parallelism between the elections and the \u201cdeath of democracy in Albania\u201d, and compared Albania to Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am sure that Lukashenko has good laws too, but Albania cannot and will not be like Belarus. This OSCE\/ODIHR report points out that there is no difference between Albania and Belarus\u2019, Basha said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the reason why Democrats decided to return to parliament, Basha responded to restore legitimacy in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The ODIHR Mission also met on Wednesday with the General Secretary of the Socialist Party, Damian Gjiknuri.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/28\/us-embassy-urges-institutions-to-address-osces-electoral-recommendations\/\">US embassy urges institutions to address OSCE\u2019s electoral recommendations<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/28\/osce-electoral-report-recurring-issues-and-ones-that-developed-in-2021\/\">OSCE electoral report \u2013 recurring issues and ones that developed in 2021<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/27\/basha-osce-odihr-report-affirmed-general-polls-were-an-electoral-massacre\/\">Basha: OSCE\/ODIHR report affirmed general polls were an electoral massacre<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Democratic Party Lulzim Basha met the head of the OSCE\/ODIHR observation mission, Urszula Gacek. In a press conference held after the meeting, Basha said to have discussed with Gacek over the primary recommendations of the OSCE\/ODIHR report, which according to him, \u2018proves the electoral massacre\u2019. Lulzim Basha also declared that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Basha meets Urszula Gacek: DP, determined to pursue electoral reform - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/basha-to-meet-head-of-the-osce-odihr-observation-mission\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Basha meets Urszula Gacek: DP, determined to pursue electoral reform - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The leader of the Democratic Party Lulzim Basha met the head of the OSCE\/ODIHR observation mission, Urszula Gacek. 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